I'm glad I said yes to BowelScreen invites — my fourth routine test found cancer

The home screening test for bowel cancer in the BowelScreen programme is available to people aged between 57 and 71, and although four in 100 may be called for a colonoscopy, only 5% of those will have cancer.

Mike Brady, whose bowel cancer was found through the BowelScreen programme. Picture: Larry Cummins

Only a month before Midleton man Mike Brady was diagnosed with sigmoid rectal cancer, the 67-year-old was in New York for a week.

“We walked everywhere. I had no symptoms at all,” says the dad of two grown-up daughters, who is married to Dorothy.